Table of Contents

APRIL 1987

VOL. 79, No. 7

FEATURES

Jay Heinrichs

32 Should the College Change Its Tune? A clash between Dartmouth of myth arid modernity keeps its people from singing in harmony.

Marshall Ledger '61

38 Wish You Were Here In his postcard collection, an alumnus finds the compressed stories of generations.

Thomas J. Frazer '82

42 For the Love of Dal Bat How the "son of a superb Jewish cook" ate his way through the Himalayas.

Lee Michaelides

24 Special Report: Safe Sex The debate over a controversial College kit lands Dartmouth on "Donahue."

DEPARTMENTS

6 Letters

10 Dartmouth Authors

Lee Michaelides

12 The College

26 Sports

Jock McDonald

29 Undergraduate Chair

Deborah Hodges

30 Wearer of the Green—Robert Kaiser '39

Rex Roberts

46 Alumni Album—The Loves

Karen Endicott

48 Class Notes and Obituaries

COVER When the editors commissioned Nancy Wasserman '77 to photograph students singing the alma mater, she had some unexpected difficulties. Not all of the group she assembled in front of Dartmouth Hall wanted to appear on the cover in support of the current "Men of Dartmouth." Several finally agreed to pose with their mouths closed. The students, who were selected at random, are part of a low-key campus debate that examines the College's very roots.